[Oabs] What are we doing at Convention

[Emily Pennington]

Hi, everyone.
I hope at least five of us can go and sell stuff. That being said, I haven't
heard anything new from my committee since our last meeting, so I'm going to
assume that we haven't received a quote from NBP or heard anything from our
other two organizations. While I think the bookmarks could definitely be in
production by then, I don't think they'd be ready for Convention,
regrettably. State convention, however, is a possibility.

Emily

-----Original Message-----
From: Oabs [mailto:oabs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kaiti Shelton
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 4:03 PM
To: Ohio Association of Blind Students list
Subject: Re: [Oabs] What are we doing at Convention

Hi Lillie,

It really depends on the number of people we have going to convention.
 When I sold candy with the affiliate last year, we had about 10 to 15 of us
actively selling, (and a lot of my sales came from sitting with other
affiliates and people wanting a little sugar rush durring general session).
If we're going to sell and be profitable, we need to have at least a handful
of people going.

I know you and Emily are planning to go, and I am tentatively making plans
as well.  I would like to know if anyone else is going so that no one or two
people have to sell all the time.  It would be good if we can do this, but
you're supposed to be able to learn from convention too.  I'd hope that
people who went could sell when they could. but still count on others to
pitch in as well.  I don't think 3 people would really be enough to
accomplish this, especially since unless someone wins a scholarship, we'll
likely only be outside our own affiliate at rare points in time, or in
division meetings.  Last year I tried just standing in the hallway and
shouting, but there are so many other callers for rooms and other sales that
it's easy to not be heard.
This being said, this is only if we can get the bookmarks designed and mass
produced by the time convention roles around.  Emily, do you think about 2
and a half months is enough time for this to happen?

On 4/6/14, Lillie Pennington <lilliepennington at fuse.net> wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
>
>
> Upon waking up from a dream where I was trying to convince several 
> people that OABS should post an apples to apples tournament at 
> convention, I began wondering what are we going to be doing?
>
>
>
> I'm pretty sure  that several student devisions sell stuff at 
> convention. I know that Ohio will not have a table, but I feel like I 
> saw in an email last year that you didn't necessarily have to have a 
> table to sell stuff.
>
> Are we going to try to have the bookmarks ready by then?
>
> I think this could be good because it not only gets us funds, but we 
> have a big market that week and it puts our name out there sort of on 
> a national level.
>
> This may not be an option for us, but thought it was worth throwing 
> out there.
>
>
>
> Also, another idea I had is having a call to talk about convention. 
> Maybe having someone speak who's been to a number of conventions or 
> having a panel of sorts. We could also talk about things on the agenda 
> and ask questions, and get recommendations for what to go to.
>
> Also, is the big agenda out yet?
>
>
>
> I was just throwing these ideas out there. I am planning on convention 
> and this will be my first one and I'm really excited.
>
> Thanks
>
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Kaiti Shelton
University of Dayton 2016.
Music Therapy, Psychology, Philosophy
President, Ohio Association of Blind Students Sigma Alpha Iota-Delta Sigma

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